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War Story

 
 
Captain Zoom
14:52 / 10.11.01
Anybody else reading this series. I've just finished "D-Day Dodgers", and it ranks as Ennis' most moving work to date. Anyone who thought he was all swearing and violence should read this. Fucking brilliant.

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Regrettable Juvenilia
11:29 / 11.11.01
I quite liked it - the line that goes something like "No, just an immensely disappointed Catholic" is brilliant... but I'm not sure about that closing sequence. The way it pans around the battlefield is good, but the sing... Ennis laying it on a bit thick. Again.

Still, good stuff. And has it occurred to DC that this would be a great book to promote really heavily on the back of the success of 'Band of Brothers'? It has not.
 
 
Captain Zoom
13:59 / 11.11.01
Yer right. I mean, apart from the solicitation, it's garnered no other hype. I mean, this is the dude who wrote Preacher and revived The Punisher. You'd think they'd be hyping it up like crazy.

Then again, where would they?

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Karasu
16:33 / 12.11.01
Yup. He does write some amazing war stories. You can read it through all his work. Hellblazer (The ghost of the spitfire pilot), Preacher (obvious here), Punisher (again with the obvious), Enemy Ace was great... and so on, even going back to one of his first pieces, back in the days of Crisis when he pulled the whole "Fuck Communism" lighter long before Jesse Custer appeared on the scene.

Have to say Flyboy, I loved the end of D Day Dodgers. Yeah, the songs a bit twee, but it was written at the time and adds to the reality of the book for me. I loved the way the art treks across the battlefield. In fact <puts on thich head> I didn't notice it at first. Doh!
 
  
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